I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
George Murray
In Storytelling, I wanted to put the emphasis on three parts of the story: Beginning, Middle, and End. These ideas might apply more to the Elementary but I could see them work in higher grades.
1. My first idea I got from watching a second grade classroom during their English. The students had to write their own books and draw illustrations to them.
More than that the teacher used a machine that put the pages together in form of a book!
Each student got to make couple of copies. Each student could pick their favorite book and get it signed by an author.
2. Second idea is rather simple. I played this game with my friends back in Poland.
The game was called "What happens next." One person starts a story from either a place, time, or character.
Starting person talks for about a minute whatever comes to mind in order for the story to continue.
Then another person tells another part of the story. It goes on and on, until the last person in class will either leave the story at cliffhanger or finishes it with an ending.
I see this one as a practice with the vocabulary from the previous day. Each student has to make a sentence for a story that has a vocab word.
3. Overall, students (especially younger ones) love when someone reads to them or they can read to an adult.
Also, there are many books that have cassettes with. I noticed that the younger students just love Dr. Seuss.
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
George MurrayIn Storytelling, I wanted to put the emphasis on three parts of the story: Beginning, Middle, and End. These ideas might apply more to the Elementary but I could see them work in higher grades.
1. My first idea I got from watching a second grade classroom during their English. The students had to write their own books and draw illustrations to them.
More than that the teacher used a machine that put the pages together in form of a book!
Each student got to make couple of copies. Each student could pick their favorite book and get it signed by an author.
2. Second idea is rather simple. I played this game with my friends back in Poland.
The game was called "What happens next." One person starts a story from either a place, time, or character.
Starting person talks for about a minute whatever comes to mind in order for the story to continue.
Then another person tells another part of the story. It goes on and on, until the last person in class will either leave the story at cliffhanger or finishes it with an ending.
I see this one as a practice with the vocabulary from the previous day. Each student has to make a sentence for a story that has a vocab word.
3. Overall, students (especially younger ones) love when someone reads to them or they can read to an adult.
Also, there are many books that have cassettes with. I noticed that the younger students just love Dr. Seuss.